Me: Well, this was better than last update. No duels. I'm spinning myself in circles!

Astral: You'll make yourself dizzy.

Me: That's the point! And now my head hurts… I'm pretty sure I don't own Yugioh Zexal. Do I?

Astral: No you don't.

Me: Oh. Who are you?

Astral: (sighs) And this is why you shouldn't spin yourself around so much.

Chapter 14: Explanations, Complications, And Something I Don't Understand

"Over Hundred Numbers?! What are Over Hundred Numbers?!" Yuma yelled, spitting out his juice.

"Not on my carpet!" Sarah yelled. They were all sitting in Sarah's bedroom ground as Kaito described today's observations.

"Sorry." Yuma wiped his mouth. "Now, uh, what was that you were talking about Kaito?"

Kaito sighed, leaning on the wall. "I dueled someone named Misael today. He had a Numbers card."

"A Numbers…" Astral muttered, floating next to Yuma with his arms crossed.

"Not just any Numbers. An Over Hundred Numbers. Numbers 107, Galaxy-Eyes Tachyon Dragon." Kaito said. "Orbital."

"Confirmed!" Orbital saluted, then projected a video clip of the summoning of the duel from earlier today. It showed the summoning of the Numbers, and then the video went fuzzy, as the shaking began.

"What does this mean?" Shark said. "Isn't there supposed to be only 100 Numbers?"

"Astral. Do you know?" Kotori asked. Astral shook his head.

"This is the first time I've heard of it." He replied. "It's all very strange. For there to be new Numbers here, and for there to be such thing as an Over Hundred Numbers. This is getting strange."

Sarah's eye twitched. "More cards I don't know…" She grumbled. "I knew every card there was. And now ever since you guys came now there are cards I don't know… It's not fair…"

Shark sighed. "What does that have to do with anything?"

"You guys just freaking took away the last thing I liked about me jeez!" She yelled at the purple-haired duelist. "I knew every single card there was, every anime, real life, and game cards but now there's these Over-Hundred Numbers and I DON'T KNOW THEM!"

Shark winced slightly at her shrill voice. "That's not the problem here. What we should be worried about is how we're going to deal with these Barians and their new Numbers."

"They are not someone to be dealt with easily. My duel today proved that." Kaito responded.

"It's too strange." Astral said.

"Yeah." Yuma nodded. "It's enough to make my head burst from all this weirdness!"

"Well, just keep your eyes peeled for anything and tell us if you find anything." Astral said to Shark and Kaito. "We will need to know everything we can to be able to counter them this time."

They all nodded.

"And when we beat these Barians, maybe they'll tell us how to get back to our world." Shark said. "That's perfect! I'll beat them all up!"

"You can't just punch them!" Sarah panicked.

"In a duel!" Shark replied. "Duh!"

Kaito inwardly sighed at the two. "You two are so simple."

"We are not!" They both yelled.

"Um, shouldn't you two calm down?" Kotori asked.

"Not now!" Sarah said, frowning at Kaito. "It's on!"

She grabbed the pillow from her bed and threw it at Kaito's face, making a direct hit and leaving him with a shocked expression on his face. Beside her, Anne giggled and clapped.

Yuma and Kotori stared, mouths open as Shark held back snickers. Anne laughed, picked up a pillow, and threw it at Shark, hitting him in the face too. Now Shark had the same expression as Kaito.

"W-What are you do—" Yuma yelled, only to get interrupted by Sarah grabbing him and using him as a shield against Kaito's oncoming pillow. Sarah leaned out from behind Yuma and stuck out her tongue, and she got hit in the face by Shark's pillow.

"Shouldn't we go do our homework?" Kotori asked, trying to stop an already gone too far fight. Pillows flew across the room as people got hit by them. Kotori sighed, then went to the desk in the corner to try and do the homework while the others yelled at each other.

"Is this how humans express their fun?" Astral shook his head. "I'll never get it."

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"And this is why you shouldn't have such a violent pillow fight!" Kotori scolded, helping Yuma to put a bandage on his head.

"Kaito's the one who threw it so hard!" He complained.

"That was Ryoga's idea." Kaito said, a bandage on his arm. "He's the one who put Sarah's figurines in the pillows and threw them."

"It's her fault for leaving those all over the place!" Shark rubbed his sore side, which had been hit pretty hard by a giant stuffed shark, ironically.

"You stepped on my mini Yugi and broke off his left arm!" Sarah yelled at him. "And my Kaiba doll's head isn't doing much better either since SOMEONE ahemYumaahem stuffed him in a pillow and whipped him at me!"

"I was trying to hit Shark! You were in the way!"

"Shark was five feet from me! How do you miss that bad?!"

"He was five feet behind you!"

Kotori hit one of Yuma's wounds, making him freeze and double over. "What was that for Kotori?" He said weakly.

"You're blabbering. Calm down for a few seconds, please." Kotori said, wrapping another bandage around his arm where a Yusei figurine had nailed him. "Now don't you have homework?"

"You mean we have homework?"

"No, I mean you have homework. I did mine while you guys were flinging pillows at each other!" Kotori handed him a huge stack of books, which he struggled to hold. "Now it's due Monday, so you should work on it!"

"Okay okay!" Yuma nodded. "Let's just go to the library then. I'll call Shingetsu to come with us. He'll help me!"

Kotori looked at him and sighed.

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"Okay then..." Yuma read out of the textbook. "Analyze this story... The legend of an ancient hero... Long, long ago, there was a group of brave knights who served a certain country. One of them was a hero who rode his beloved steed, Pegasus."

"Oh, that story! I love that story!" Sarah said happily. "It's so cool! The knights, lead by that hero, protected the peace of their country." She recited. "One day, the hero left the castle to go back to his hometown. However, when the hero left, the knights that were left behind decided to overthrow the king and took over the country. With the hero gone, the knights got conceited with their own power and began to deem themselves worthy of being King."

"That's sad..." Kotori said.

"Hearing about the knights rebellion, the hero rushed back to the castle." Sarah continued. "The hero tried to appeal to them that all that time, they had hearts filled with justice, and tried to make them remember their bonds as comrades who fought together. But his former comrades turned their swords against him. The hero couldn't fight his former comrades. He kept refusing to fight back, and thus was struck down by the swords of his own comrades. Then suddenly, the hero's beloved steed, Pegasus, stood in front of the knights to protect his master. With his life, he was trying to protect his master, the Hero. It was impossible for the Hero to abandon Pegasus, and that was the same for Pegasus. He stayed with Pegasus, and together they died."

"Poor hero." Rei said, looking out the window and not looking at them. He didn't sound that emotional.

"The knights were struck to their hearts by the willingness of the hero and Pegasus to sacrifice their lives. They were ashamed of what they did and their desire for rebellion vanished. They buried the hero and the Pegasus with honor, kneeling before the grave, their heads bowed. And then the hero, along with Pegasus's soul, rose to heaven together."

"That seems depressing." Yuma said. "Isn't there any other ones I can do?"

"Yuma-kun, you could also do this one!" Rei handed him a small storybook.

"What's that one?" Yuma asked.

"Let's see, it's," Rei paused, then put the book back underneath his bags. "You know what, let's not do that one!" He laughed nervously.

"Lemme see!" Sarah swipped the book despite his protests, and began reading from it. "A cursed legend of an acursed palace. I see why you don't wanna do this one. Hmm. There was this palace that was owned by this prince who ruled over. From childhood, he didn't believe in kindness and treated everyone with suspicion, until he started to kill all those he was suspicious of. After robbing everyone else of their lives, when he was the only one left, he took his own life. A cursed legend."

Sarah, Kotori, and Rei all shivered. "Well that's creepy." Kotori said.

"Let's just do the pegasus legend." Yuma said, reading the legend over again. "It's a lot nicer. Now, how do you do this…."

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"Finished… finished…" Yuma leaned back in his chair, exhausted. "I finished it!"

"Well, let's just go home then." Sarah shut her textbook and put it into her backpack. "I gotta buy some take out for dinner and then we can go. Whaddya wanna eat?"

"Duel Fuel!" Yuma yelled.

"I don't think that's takeout food Yuma." Kotori said.

"We could find it!"

"Tsukumo Yuma!" They turned to where a voice had yelled Yuma's name, and a man wearing a green Heartland Middle uniform jumped in their path. He had a green Mohawk and a scary expression on his face.

"W-Who are you?" Kotori said. Rei's eyes narrowed.

Astral appeared next to Yuma from the Emperor's Key. "Yuma, be careful. There's something strange about this ma—"

He doubled over suddenly, and winced in pain. "Astral?!" Yuma panicked. "W-What's wrong?"

"I-I don't know…" Astral clutched his side.

"Tsukumo Yuma. I'm Gilag. Duel me." The man said seriously.

"Duel?" Yuma stared at him.

"I'll be taking all of your Numbers. Don't wimp out. Meet me here tomorrow." He tossed Yuma an envelope, then glared at Rei. "Be sure to bring Shingetsu."

"Shingetsu?"

"Why?" Kotori asked.

"What's up?!" Sarah exclaimed.

"I'll beat you both at once." Gliag began to walk away.

"Wait!" Yuma yelled. "Why do I have to bring Shingetsu?!"

"Kk, you guys don't know his true identity, do you." He growled and turned around. "He's the guy who attacked Alit!"

"Attacked?"

"Who's Alit?" Sarah wondered.

"I-I didn't do any such thing!" Rei shouted.

"Yeah! Shingetsu wouldn't do something like that!" Yuma yelled.

"You're going to believe that faker?!" Gilag yelled. "Fine! I'll beat you both tomorrow! You'd better be there!" Then he disappeared into a Barian portal.

Yuma looked at the spot where Gilag just was, then at Shingetsu's scared expression, Kotori and Sarah's confused expressions, at Astral in pain for some unknown reason, and at the card with a location written on it.

"What's going on?" He said.

Me: Review…

Astral: She spun herself around too much.

Me: Alit's somewhere I dunno…

Astral: . . . Oh forget it. I'm done.